INDONESIA: 10 YEARS AFTER 'REFORMASI'

Former UN human rights chief debates with MEPsHuman rights -10-06-2008 - 17:38Human rights need to be at the centre of globalisation - this was the message former UN high Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson brought to parliament on Monday. Promoting her Ethical Globalisation initiative she told Members of the human rights sub-committee that it was important the poorest thought of human rights as a"birthright". Ms Robinson also stressed the need both for accountability and capacity building.

Indonesian freedom elusive for someAljazeera.net TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008 5:18 MECCA TIME, 2:18 GMTFreedom was the rallying call of the mass protests in Indonesia that toppled Suharto from the presidency in 1998.Many of the thousands of political opponents imprisoned under his rule were released after his fall, but 10 years on, people are once again being jailed for expressing their opinions. Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen gets exclusive access to interview a man sentenced a few weeks ago to life in prison for waving a separatist flag. Locked up for life for waving a flag, independence activist Johan Teterissa is Indonesia's latest political prisoner.http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5FFDF8F9-6229-42A7-9F7C-D366E7C9E9FA.htm

Indonesia needs second edition of Reformation MovementAntara 2008-05-25 01:03:40The reform movement which resulted in the ouster of authoritarian President Soeharto after ruling this world largest archipelagic country for 32 years had been facing away, as the political elite in the country failed to implement it thoroughly. Read Continue...

Indonesia's Road Towards Democracy - Ten Years OnRadio SingaporeInternational May 24, 2008In Perspective this week with me ? Melanie Yip, a look at Indonesia?s democratic reforms one decade after the late President Suharto?s fall from power. Continue...

Indonesia marks a decade since fall of Suharto2008-05-24 01:34:35 Listen: More Indonesia Stories: Ten years ago Indonesia's late President Suharto stepped down after 32 years in power. That provided the backdrop for three days of rioting that left one thousand Indonesians dead and brought the New Order regime to its Continue...

Indonesia searching for directionThe AustralianStephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta | May 19, 2008 US historian Benedict Anderson, the godfather of modern Indonesian studies, famously banished by Suharto for adroitly questioning the founding myths of the strongman's rule, wrote in a scathing obituary that "cynics joke that there used to be one big Suharto; now there are hundreds of little ones". Read More

Ten years on, Indonesia activists disillusionedKhaleej Times Online (Reuters) 20 May 2008JAKARTA - Indonesian student activists dreamed of far reaching political reforms after helping topple the often brutal rule of President Suharto, but ten years on, many feel their hopes have been dashed.Read More

Another May tragedy possibleBy Frans H Winarta The Jakarta Post 23-05-2008 It feels like yesterday when in fact it has been 10 years since reform was declared by its leaders Megawati Soekarnoputri, Abdurrahman Wahid, Amien Rais and Hamengkubuwono IX in Ciganjur, following the fall of Suharto's New Order regime in 1998.

The promises at that time were of a democracy and government unblemished by corruption, collusion and nepotism (KKN), a professional military without the dual functions of the armed forces, the abolishment of extrajudicial agencies, the abolition of conglomerates, a people-based economy, human rights reverence, freedom of the press and other wishful promises.Read More

Measuring Indonesia’s Good Faith in Human RightsMyNews.In Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:27:44 AM Ch. NarendraHaving been criticized by some leading states in the human rights field such as Canada and the Netherlands during the Universal Periodic Review session, Indonesia’s good faith in human rights clearly needs to be questioned once again. The question that needs to be asked is does Indonesia know the quintessence of human rights?

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Amnesty says torture widespread in IndonesiaABC News Wed Apr 16, 2008Torture and other human rights abuses are still widespread in Indonesia 10 years after the fall of dictator Suharto, Amnesty International says.

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Torture 'unpunished in Indonesia'BBC 2007/11/23 12:24:50 GMTThe police are rarely punished for the abuse, Mr Nowak says Indonesia has a "culture of impunity" in the face of ill-treatment and torture, a senior UN official has said.

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